Supplemental shoe for planters.



No. 800,332. PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905.

I P. W. SIEBERT. SUPPLEMENTAL SHOE POE PLANTERS.

APPLICATION II'LED JUNE 5.1905.

Witnesses I Inventor.

" Attorneys This invention relates to supplemental shoes I FRIEDEBIQH W. STIEBERT, or McGlRK, rssoum.

Specification of Letters Patent.

SUPPLEMENTAL SHO E FOR PLANTERS.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

'Applicationfiled ilune5,1905. seriaina'zeasso- To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRIEDERICH W. SIE- BERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at McGirk, in the county of Moniteau and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Supplemental Shoe for Planters, of which the following is a specification.

for planters, the same being applicable to various types of corn-planters, such as checkrowers and drills.

The invention has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and operation of this class of devices and to provide a supplemental shoe having wings or shares and improved means for adjusting and retaining the same at various adjustments.

With these and other endsin view, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes and modifications, especially With regard to size, proportion, and exact manner of assemblage, may be made within the scope of the invention.

In said drawings. Figure 1 isa top plan view of a supplemental shoe complete, the same being constructed in' accordance with the principles of the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the runner member detached. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail view of one of the adjusting-wedges. 1

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indicatedthroughout by similar characters of reference.

A runner or furrow-opener 1 of conventional form has been shown, the same being composed of a flat plate of metal having a curved earth-engaging front edge -2 and an,

upwardly-extending neck 3, perforated at 4, for connection with the draft attachment (not shown) and which is usually a part of the frame of the machine with which the shoe is operatively connected. The rear end of the body of the runner is bifurcated, so as to form wings 5 and 6, said wings being spread or spaced apart, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, to permit seeds to be dropped between them and into the furrow, which is opened by said wings. I

Upon opposite sides of the runner 1 are mounted a pair of earth-engaging scrapers or shares 7 7, the forward ends of which are adjustably connected with the neck 2 of the runner by means of a connecting member, such as a bolt 8, extending through any one of a plurality of perforations 9 in said neck. The scrapers or shares are provided near their rear ends with inward-extending brackets 10, said brackets being approximately U-shaped and connected with the shares by means, such as rivets 11, extending through their outer arms. The inner arms'l2 of the brackets 10 are fitted in grooves 13, formed in the outer faces of wedge-spaced blocks 14, one of which is fitted upon each side of the body of the runner. Each of said blocks is provided with a plurality of perforations 15 for the reception of a bolt or connecting member 16, which also extends through apertures in the arms 12 of the brackets 10. is also provided with a plurality of perforations 17 for the passage of the bolt 16. The nut 18 of the bolt 16 is preferably square and is of such dimensions that two of its corners will engage between the flanges 19 at the sides of the groove 13 in one of the wedge-blocks.

It will be readily seen that under the construction shown the scrapers or earthengag ing members. 7'may be supported at'various distances from the lower edge of the runner and that by adjusting the wedge-blocks the The body of the runner,

rear ends may be variously spaced from the body of the runner.

The construction of the device is very simple and inexpensive, and it may be readilyapplied to and used in connection with vari-.

ously-constructed seeders and planters.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A runner, earth-engaging blades secured at the front ends uponopposite sides of said runner, U -shaped brackets upon the inner sides ofsaid blades, wedge-blocks engaging the sides of the runner and having longitudinal grooves for the reception of the inner arms of the U-shaped brackets, and means for connecting said brackets, wedges and runner.

' 2.. A runner, earth-engaging blades conne'cted at their front ends with opposite sides of the runner, U-shaped brackets upon the inner sides of said blades near their rear ends, wedge-blocks engagingthe sides of the runner and having longitudinal groovesfor the IIO In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRED W. SIEBER'I.

\Vitnesses:

W. S. PETERS, JACOB BRAND.

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